A total of 2 218 new apartment buildings were built in Bulgaria according to data released by the National Statistic Institute (NSI). The new construction has added 18 204 new apartments, increasing the total number of homes in the country to 3.8m. Of these 2.4m are in the cities (0.5m in the capital Sofia), and 1.4m are located in the villages. According to the NSI, the average number of people per one home is 2.04 (down from 2.06 in 2006). The average residential area per person is 20.13 sq. m.